Politics vs Art

[David Morris]

The politics of GR are rich and complex, and indeterminate, because its
indictments are of the structure of everything, not just political.

When the anarchists were playing no-rules golf in ATD, all I could do was
wish I hadn't read that.

David Morris

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not for the first time, do Morris and I disagree about Against the Day. I
> think it is far better
> than I think he does; and "the politics' is essential to it----but the
> 'overt' politics are not even close
> to what *Kirsch says* the author's political vision is in Against the
> Day.
>
> And the politics in Against the Day is far less 'overt', I say, than 'the
> politics" of GR, which are
> positively In- Our-Face (if we look up) yet not a detraction but a raising
> up of GR to Art.
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The politics in ATD was often a detraction from the art.  Overt politics
>> tends to do that.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Adam Kirsch, an estimable critic in general, is on record dissing
>>> Against the Day because of its bad politics---violent anarchism, domestic
>>> terrorism, the authors' positions, etc.....as he misread it.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/books/review/can-a-book-with-bad-politics-be-a-good-book.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&action=click&contentCollection=books&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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